Blanche Sweet

Known For: Acting
Born: June 16, 1896
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: September 6, 1986

Blanche Sweet

From Wikipedia Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Sweet is renowned for her energetic, independent roles, at variance with the 'ideal' Griffith type of vulnerable, often fragile, femininity. After many starring roles, her first real landmark film was the 1911 Griffith thriller The Lonedale Operator. In 1913 she starred in Griffith's first feature-length movie, Judith of Bethulia. In 1914 Sweet was initially cast by Griffith in the part of Elsie Stoneman in his epic The Birth of a Nation but the role was eventually given to rival actress Lillian Gish, who was Sweet's senior by three years. That same year Sweet parted ways with Griffith and joined Paramount (then Famous Players-Lasky) for the much higher pay that studio was able to afford. Thr…

Filmography

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

1982 · Narrator (voice)

Hollywood

1980 · Self

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959

The Thin Man

1957

Make Mine Memories

Make Mine Memories

1945

Twenty Years After

1944 · (archive footage)

The Silver Horde

1930 · Queenie

Show Girl in Hollywood

1930 · Donny Harris

The Woman Racket

1930 · Julia Barnes Hayes

Always Faithful

1929 · Mrs. George W. Mason

The Woman in White

The Woman in White

1929 · Laura Fairlie / Anne Catherick

Singed

1927 · Dolly Wall

Diplomacy

1926 · Dora Weymouth

The Far Cry

1926 · Claire Marsh

Bluebeard's Seven Wives

1926 · Juliet

The New Commandment

1925 · Renee Darcourt

Why Women Love

1925 · Molla Hansen

The Sporting Venus

The Sporting Venus

1925 · Lady Gwendolyn

His Supreme Moment

1925 · Carla King

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1924 · Teresa "Tess" Durbeyfield

Those Who Dance

1924 · Rose Carney

Anna Christie

1923 · Anna Christie

In the Palace of the King

1923 · Dolores Mendoza

The Meanest Man in the World

1923 · Jane Hudson

Souls for Sale

1923 · Self - Celebrity Actress (uncredited)

Quincy Adams Sawyer

1922 · Alice Pettengill

That Girl Montana

1921 · Montana Rivers

Her Unwilling Husband

1920 · Mavis

Help Wanted - Male

1920 · Leona Stafford

Girl in the Web

1920 · Esther Maitland

Simple Souls

1920 · Molly Shine

The Deadlier Sex

1920 · Mary Willard

Fighting Cressy

1919 · Cressy

A Woman of Pleasure

1919 · Alice Dane

The Hushed Hour

1919 · Virginia Appleton Blodgett

The Unpardonable Sin

1919 · Alice Parcot / Dinny Parcot

Those Without Sin

1917 · Melanie Landry

The Evil Eye

1917 · Dr. Katherine Torrance

The Storm

1916 · Natalie Raydon

Public Opinion

1916 · Hazel Gray

The Thousand-Dollar Husband

The Thousand-Dollar Husband

1916 · Olga Nelson

The Sowers

1916 · Karin Dolokhof

The Ragamuffin

1916 · Jenny

The Secret Sin

1915 · Edith Martin / Grace Martin

The Case of Becky

1915 · Dorothy/Becky

The Secret Orchard

1915 · Diane

The Clue

1915 · Christine Lesley

Stolen Goods

1915 · Margery Huntley

The Captive

1915 · Sonya Matinovich

The Warrens of Virginia

1915 · Agatha Warren

The Little Country Mouse

1914 · Dorothy

The Odalisque

1914 · May, a Stock Girl

The Tear That Burned

1914 · Meg - the Wild Girl

For Her Father's Sins

For Her Father's Sins

1914 · Mary Ashton

Her Awakening

1914 · Mary

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

The Second Mrs. Roebuck

1914 · Mabel Mack

The Avenging Conscience

1914 · The Sweetheart

Men and Women

1914 · Agnes Rodman - Stephen's Daughter

The Painted Lady

The Painted Lady

1914 · Jane - the Elder Sister

Home, Sweet Home

1914 · The Wife

Judith of Bethulia

1914 · Judith

Strongheart

1914 · Dorothy Nelson, Frank's Sister

Classmates

1914 · Sylvia Randolph

The House of Discord

1913 · The Wife

A Cure for Suffragettes

A Cure for Suffragettes

1913

Two Men of the Desert

1913 · The Authoress

Death's Marathon

1913 · The Wife

If We Only Knew

1913 · The Mother

The Stolen Bride

The Stolen Bride

1913 · The Grower's Daughter

The Hero of Little Italy

The Hero of Little Italy

1913 · Maria

Near To Earth

1913

Broken Ways

1913 · The Road Agent's Wife

Love in an Apartment Hotel

Love in an Apartment Hotel

1913 · The Young Woman

A Chance Deception

A Chance Deception

1913 · The Wife

Oil and Water

1913 · Mlle. Genova

Pirate Gold

1913 · The Daughter

Three Friends

1913 · The Wife

The Coming of Angelo

1913 · Theresa

The God Within

1912 · The Woman of the Camp

The Massacre

1912 · Stephen's Ward

A Sailor’s Heart

1912 · The Sailor's Second Sweetheart

The Painted Lady

1912 · The Older Sister

The Chief's Blanket

1912 · The Young Woman

Blind Love

1912 · The Young Woman

With the Enemy's Help

1912 · The Prospector's Wife

A Temporary Truce

1912 · Alice Hardy - the Prospector's Wife

The Lesser Evil

1912 · The Young Woman

One Is Business, the Other Crime

1912 · Rich Wife

The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch

1912 · The Goddess

A String of Pearls

1912 · The Brother's Sweetheart

Under Burning Skies

1912 · Emily

The Transformation of Mike

1912 · The Tenement Girl

For His Son

1912 · The Son's Fiancée

The Eternal Mother

1912 · Martha, the Wife

The Voice of the Child

1911 · The Wife

A Woman Scorned

1911

The Miser's Heart

1911 · Neighbor

Through Darkening Vales

1911 · Grace

The Battle

1911 · The Boy's Sweetheart

Love in the Hills

Love in the Hills

1911 · The Mountain Girl

The Long Road

1911 · Edith

The Making of a Man

1911 · Young Woman

The Villain Foiled

The Villain Foiled

1911 · Miss Page

The Blind Princess and the Poet

The Blind Princess and the Poet

1911 · The Princess

The Last Drop of Water

1911 · Mary

A Country Cupid

1911 · Edith

The Indian Brothers

1911 · Indian

Fighting Blood

1911

The Primal Call

1911

Enoch Arden

1911 · Woman on the Beach

Enoch Arden: Part I

1911

The New Dress

1911 · At Wedding/At Market

How She Triumphed

How She Triumphed

1911 · Mary

The Broken Cross

The Broken Cross

1911

The Spanish Gypsy

The Spanish Gypsy

1911

The Lonedale Operator

1911 · Daughter of the Lonedale Operator

His Daughter

1911

The Two Paths

1911

A Flash of Light

1910

All on Account of the Milk

1910 · The Maid

The Rocky Road

1910

The Day After

1909 · The New Year

To Save Her Soul

1909 · Stage Dancer

A Corner in Wheat

1909

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